Show Cart button not working in shopping cart module

[jnzken]

When I press the show cart button in the shopping cart module it displays an error: "cannot establish a connection to the server at localhost".  When I try it on the live site I get this error:
"SSL received a record that exceeded the maximum permissible length. (Error code: ssl_error_rx_record_too_long)". All other show cart buttons work such as the one that is displayed in the box that pops up when you add a product to the cart and the one I created on the main menu. Virtue mart is updated to 2.0.12 and joomla is 2.5.7.